Posted on 10/30/2017 1:12:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Blackface is as predictable around Halloween as candy, and by now the outrage in response is also pretty predictable.
Plenty of white people, including parents who watched Disney pull its "Maui" zip-up suit costume from store shelves last year in response to accusations of brownface, are probably wondering when, if ever, it's OK to dress up as a figure of another race.
The answer: It depends. Like most issues involving race in our country, avoiding offense at Halloween requires thinking about not just stereotypes or discrimination but also white supremacy.
One problem with racism is that it advances white supremacy -- not just the notion that white people are superior, but also that they are the baseline, the default, the standard in our society.
The tragedy of white supremacy is that it casts whites as ordinarily and fully human, while those of us outside of ordinary -- behind, ahead, exotic or something else altogether -- are denied full humanity.
All this helps us think a little more clearly about Halloween costumes. Sure, dressing up in a stereotype -- a black person as a rapper or an Asian person with a coolie hat -- is offensive, but those are the easy cases. Going deeper: Does your getup present another group as unusual when compared to whites?
Finally, when in doubt, just don't do it. Dealing with power and white supremacy requires caution, and erring on the side of deference is an expression of power we can all get behind.
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But there is absolutely nothing wrong with a black chick dressing up and playing a Viking in a movie...
I once dressed as a black guy, or a minstrel or something. I was about 12. I just remember that I really screwed up the costume. I got black face paint instead of brown.
What if a white girl dressed up as Rachel Dolezal?
Who says they can’t? The PC police? Come to my door and serve the warrant.
I would add that they are also the AUTHORS of our society. Without them, there would be no "our society." So yeah, they are the baseline, the default, and the standard by which others are judged. And that's been a pretty good thing for the last couple hundred years.
Stick your “white supremacy” where the sun don’t shine
White privilege.
Duh.
If Liz Warren can do it everyday, why not me? I’m going as a black Native American transexual liberal Asian. :-)
Considering non-white kids dress as white characters all the time, I’d say HELL YES.
Is she dressed as something?
Lets make Halloween, annoy a liberal day. White people should dress their kid so as to cause leftists heads to explode and if some faggoty cry bully complains about it, PUNCH THEIR FACE. Remember, the more they complain the more we do what annoys them.
How about a grade schooler with AARON on a pinstripe jersey?
I’d have to say, not a “black character”, in the terms being put forward.
Anyway, ‘blackface’ was right out years ago, in the sixties.
That woman has “African-American” features but she has pink skin and her hair is dyed blond. She should be imprisoned for life or 600 years, whichever is longest.
She ain’t black, looks like fifty-fifty to me. Arrest her for impersonating a black person impersonating a white person.
You used the correct term of transexual rather than the made up, incorrect term of transgender, you are guilty of correct language privilege and must be imprisoned and forced to watch the view continuously for three days.
I would certainly hope and expect that such a white child would be arrested and remanded to Juvenile Court and charged with Cultural Appropriation.
The View for 3 days? That is cruel and unusual punishment for ANYONE!! (except Liberals)...
Dear Howeveryournameispelled,
This year Im wearing black face and a chicken bone necklace.
I hope youre offended.
L
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